CYPRII'EDIUM. 



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0. Hookerse. 



Leaves elliptic-oblong, 4 — 6 inches long and 1^ — 2 inches broad, deep 

 green, mottled with light greyish green. Scapes somewhat slender and 

 elongated, one- (rarely two-) flowered, clothed with greyish hairs as is the 



l^s 



Cypripedium Hookerse. 



ovary. Bract about one-half the length of the ovary. Flowers medium 



size, 2| inches across vertically, with all the segments ciliolate ; upper 



sepal cordate, acute, yellowish white with green centre, keeled and hairy 



behind ; lower sepal smaller, ovate, pale yellow-green ; petals spathulate, 



depressed, the narrower basal part undulate, green with blackish spots 



and purple margin, the dilated distal part purple ; lip helmet- shaped, 



brownish purple toned with green, the infolded lobes yellowish brown 



spotted with red-purple. Staminode large for the size of the flower, 



broadly oval with a rounded notch on the apical side, brown-purple with 



a pale yellow-green centre and margin. 



Cypripedium Hookera, Rchb. fide Bot. Mag. t. 5362 (1863). Van Houtte's Fl. des 

 Serres XV. t. 1565 (copied from the Bot. Mag.). Rchb. Xen. Orch. II. p. 125, t. 141. 

 C. barbatum Hookerse, Gartenfi. XXVI. p. 245 (1876). 



